Pilot crashes into house and tries to put out fire with garden hose

Share via

The pilot of a light aircraft who crashed into a house in Colorado managed to escape from the burning wreckage of the plane without injury and calmly tried to put out the fire with a garden hose.

It was only afterwards that Brian Veatch realised that he once owned the house into which he had crashed.

Mr Veatch was at the controls of a single-engined Piper PA-25 Pawnee dragging an advertising banner for an insurance company when his aircraft lost power over the town of Northglenn yesterday afternoon.

Witnesses said that the aircraft was struggling to keep aloft as the

Subscribe now

Login

Already a subscriber?

To see the full article you need to subscribe

Subscribe

Login

1/2

The pilot used to own the house he crashed into in Colorado

2014-05-06 10:30:26.121 AP

The pilot used to own the house he crashed into in Colorado

2014-05-06 10:30:26.121 AP

Having survived the crash, the pilot tried to put out the fire with a hose, until the real firefighters turned up